Quotes from Tennessee Williams

His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

You know, then, that the public Somebody you are when you "have a name" is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath and which is the sum of your actions and so is constantly in a state of becoming under your own volition — and knowing these things, you can even survive the catastrophe of Success!

The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.

I'd rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains - than go back mornings! I go! Every time you come in yelling that Goddamn Rise and Shine! Rise and Shine! I say to myself, How lucky dead people are!

Nature is not on the side of a girl over thirty

I felt a great depression, probably because I never believed that anything would continue, would hold. I never thought my advance would maintain its ground. I always thought there would be a collapse immediately after the advance.

You were a wonderful lover.... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it.

Why didn't it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough...and not closer?

SHANNON: A man can die of panic. HANNAH: Not if he enjoys it as much as you, Mr Shannon.

Laura: I've never danced in my life! Jim: Come on, try! Laura: Oh, but I'd step on you! Jim: I'm not made out of glass.

Yes, we all use each other and that's what we think of as love, and not being able to use each other is what's-- hate ....

Alguien escribió una vez: Somos todos niños en un vasto jardín de infantes, procurando formar el nombre de Dios con letras de un rompecabezas que está equivocado.

Yo no puedo cambiar la verdad! Yo no soy Dios. Ni siquiera estoy segura que él pudiese. No creo que Dios mismo pueda cambiar la verdad.

Así es. Todas las muchachas lindas son una trampa y los hombres esperan que lo sean.

Sabes cuál es la mayor victoria de una gata sobre un tejado de zinc caliente? Resistir en él todo el tiempo que le sea posible, hasta el último segundo.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier — than living entirely alone — if the one that y' love doesn't love you.

BRICK —No me gusta que me digan lo que debo hacer. ¿Ya has olvidado las condiciones que acepté para que continuáramos viviendo juntos? MARGARET —Tú no vives conmigo, Brick. Únicamente compartes la misma jaula.

Dixie, Trixie, Buster, Sonny, Polly! — Sounds like four dogs and a parrot.

Esto no es una tragedia. El cristal se rompe tan fácilmente... Por cuidadoso que uno sea. El tránsito hace trepitar los estantes y las cosas se caen

Well, they say nature hates a vacuum. - That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Oh, estar enamorado ha hecho de mí un hombre nuevo! ¡La fuerza del amor es algo tremendo! El amor es algo que... transforma el mundo entero

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!